The workshop · Marseille · since 1981

A master glassmakers’ workshop
in the heart of Marseille

Founded in 1981 in the Chutes-Lavie district, the Vitraux Imbert workshop brings together a team of highly skilled stained glass artists and modern equipment suited to every kind of creation and restoration work. From a family home to Notre-Dame de Paris, the same high standards apply.

years of experience in the art of stained glass

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restorations, including Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris

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creations for private clients across France

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year Dominique Imbert founded the workshop

1900

Our story

A family business handed down from father to son

For more than forty years, the Vitraux Imbert workshop has been a leading name in French stained glass. Founded in 1981 by Dominique Imbert, a master glassmaker known for his rigour, creativity and artistic sense, the workshop has grown steadily and built a genuine national reputation.

Over the decades, it has worked closely with the architects of France’s historic monuments, local authorities, dioceses and many heritage associations and institutions. That lasting trust rests on skills that can handle the simplest projects as well as the most complex monumental commissions.

Now run by Oleg J. Imbert, the founder’s son, the workshop carries on the family’s standard of excellence while bringing a modern, forward-looking approach.

Our method

A design office at the service of your project

Every project means working closely with you. From the outset, we operate as a design office to plan every stage of design or restoration and to answer your questions on aesthetic and technical choices.

Site survey

On-site assessment, measurements and photographic reports, analysis of technical and heritage constraints.

Model and samples

Presentation model, 3D rendering, and samples of glass and colours.

Test panel

A test panel to approve the design, materials and the way light comes through before production.

Making and installation

Glass cutting, glass painting, leading, cementing, removal and installation, and external protection for the windows.

The workshop in pictures

Where light takes shape

Light tables, antique glass, lead came, kilns and precision tools: a workspace designed for creation and restoration alike.

Our craftsmanship

Every step, one workshop

We put all our skills to work for heritage restoration and for monumental and private commissions. The projects you entrust to us are carried out by our own team, with full respect for the glassmaking tradition and with modern, high-performance equipment.

Technical and graphic study, model and full-scale drawing
Glass cutting, colouring, glass painting and firing
Leading, cementing and glazing
Removal, installation and external protection of windows
Adapting designs and reproducing historic stained glass

Our technical innovations

Adapting and modernising, safely

The art of stained glass cannot be separated from its technical side, which protects, strengthens and lets in more light. Once we have studied your project, the workshop will suggest the best solutions.

Stained glass in double glazing

Stained glass fitted into standard or made-to-measure double glazing: long-term preservation, easy cleaning and installation, sound and thermal insulation, and security inside and out.

Glass bonding

A technique developed by our workshop and praised for the Treasury room of Saint-Front Cathedral in Périgueux: layers of coloured glass without lead, giving depth of light and shifting reflections.

Backlighting

Built-in diffused lighting that shows the stained glass by day and by night, even without natural light: ideal for interiors, shops and partitions.

The team

Mastery of stained glass, passed down from one generation to the next

Founder · Master glassmaker

Dominique Imbert

Graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts appliqués et des Métiers d’art (Olivier de Serres), 1979.
First prize at ENSAAMA for the stained glass of the French Ministry of Education, 1979.
Jean Roques Prize 2004, Académie des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
Medal of Craft Recognition, 2017.

President · Management

Oleg J. Imbert

Degree in management and international business (Florida Atlantic University).
Ten years’ experience in management and business development.
General Secretary of the Chambre syndicale nationale du Vitrail (French stained glass trade association).
President of the Jeune Chambre économique de Marseille (Junior Chamber), 2016.

Workshop manager

Émilie Blanc

She coordinates the workshop’s day-to-day work, from preparing the glass to assembling the panels.

Portraits

From father to son

The founder

Dominique Imbert, master glassmaker

From the Sainte-Chapelle to the Marseille workshop: his career and distinctions.

Read the article (in French) →

Distinction · 2025

Oleg Imbert, Knight of Arts and Letters

The medal ceremony at the Aix-Marseille-Provence Chamber of Commerce, and a few words from Oleg Imbert.